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Reconstruction: photography and history in E.L. Doctorow's The March.
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Creator
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Seymour, Eric., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Abstract/Description
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This thesis presents an examination of the trope of photography in E. L. Doctorow's latest novel, The March, which takes General Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas as its subject matter. The Civil War, as the first major American military conflict to be photographed, is the perfect vehicle for the novel's meditation upon the representation of significant political and cultural events. As this paper argues, photography functions in the novel as a metaphor for visual culture in...
Show moreThis thesis presents an examination of the trope of photography in E. L. Doctorow's latest novel, The March, which takes General Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas as its subject matter. The Civil War, as the first major American military conflict to be photographed, is the perfect vehicle for the novel's meditation upon the representation of significant political and cultural events. As this paper argues, photography functions in the novel as a metaphor for visual culture in general. In particular, I argue that the discrepancies which the novel posits between the photographic record and lived experience function to trouble notions of media transparency. As the novel suggests, the popular conception of photography, which constructs it is an irreproachable and infallible medium, has lent itself to political manipulation. Thus, through photography, the novel depicts history as the conventional framing of events for posterity, not as a comprehensive record of events.
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Date Issued
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2007
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11600
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), History, Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
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Rifles, residents, and runaways: the conflict over slavery between civil and military authority in Maryland, 1861-1864.
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Creator
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Dunne, Brian Thomas., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
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Abstract/Description
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In the fall of 1864, Maryland became the first Border State to abolish slavery with the adoption of a new state constitution. In order to best understand the evolution of this event, the purpose of this study was to examine the civil-military relations of Maryland during the Civil War and how these relations affected the institution of slavery in the state. Therefore, the main argument is that the conflict between military and civil authorities in Maryland during the war revealed two points:...
Show moreIn the fall of 1864, Maryland became the first Border State to abolish slavery with the adoption of a new state constitution. In order to best understand the evolution of this event, the purpose of this study was to examine the civil-military relations of Maryland during the Civil War and how these relations affected the institution of slavery in the state. Therefore, the main argument is that the conflict between military and civil authorities in Maryland during the war revealed two points: first, that the federal government maintained a faithful vigilance over the state during the war and second, that the federal government exploited a fading slavery system to not only eliminate any possibility of Maryland entering the Confederacy, but also destroy any degree of Border State neutrality.
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Date Issued
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2011
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3170957
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Subject Headings
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Slavery, History, Slaves, Emancipation, History, Sources, History, Politics and government
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Document (PDF)
